Many many thanks to Daniel Balogh, Steven Baums, and Vincent Tournier for the detailed information provided by them. I shall follow up with them off-list once I go through the article sent by them.
Regards, Palaniappan On 7/14/25, 3:34 AM, "Stefan Baums" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Forwarded on behalf of Vincent. ------------------------------------------------------------------ From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Second Apsidal Temple Inscription F at Nagarjunikonda Date: 14 July 2025 at 10:11:58 CEST To: indology list <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> Dear Palaniappan, I can confirm that this important inscription was re-edited by us on the basis of the best witness available, namely the rubbings preserved in Leiden University library (this piece of information is available here). We also photographed the stone in 2017, but sections of this large slab have unfortunately peeled off. As a rule, every inscription from the Andhra region is systematically re-read before being published online on the EIAD website, and now on DHARMA, and it is only in a few cases where we did not secure any documentation that we resort to reproducing earlier editions (always specifying it, when this is the case). A detailed explanation of our method, and a full inventory of the ca. 1000 inscriptions from pre-7th century Andhra will appear later this year in a volume dedicated to this corpus with Brill (open access). For this particular inscription (EIAD 20), Vogel’s edition was in fact very good, and we only made small improvements in the reading. For the critical phrase you are interested in, I can confirm that the reading -yavana-damila-palura- is reasonably secure. See, for instance, my discussion in the enclosed article (p. 55, n. 97). You can contact me off list if you want to see the scan of the rubbing, which is a very heavy file. With best wishes, Vincent ___________ Prof. Dr. Vincent Tournier Professor of Classical Indology LMU Munich — Department for Asian Studies Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1 | 80539 München | Deutschland Tel.: +49 (0)89 2180-5501 On 14 Jul 2025, at 08:22, Dániel Balogh via INDOLOGY <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dear Palaniappan, the inscription has been edited digitally for the EIAD project by Arlo Griffiths and Vincent Tournier. The EIAD texts have been ingested into the DHARMA corpus, but not re-edited for DHARMA. The digital edition is available here: https://dharmalekha.info/texts/INSEIAD00020 <https://dharmalekha.info/texts/INSEIAD00020> However, looking at the text and the critical apparatus, it seems that the digital edition is primarily an electronic version of Vogel's original printed edition, i.e. the text has probably not been re-edited and compared with the original or a good estampage. Arlo or Vincent may be able to say more, but I'm afraid there's nothing at the moment other than Vogel's original comment. Best wishes, Daniel On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 at 00:04, Sudalaimuthu Palaniappan via INDOLOGY <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dear Indologists, In “Prakrit Inscriptions from a Buddhist Site at Nagarjunikonda”, the Second Apsidal Temple Inscription F (EI, vol. 20, l. 1, p. 22), includes the names “Yava [na-] Da[mila- Pa]lura-“. Regarding these names, J. Ph. Vogel, the author, footnotes the following. “The words which I read Yavana-Damila-Palura are not quite certain. The Da of Damila is still legible and the long-drawn top strokes of the remaining two aksharas, have led me to the conjectural reading mila, the body of the akshara m being partly preserved. The Pa of Palura is conjectural.” I would like to know if any later work (like ERC’s DHARMA project) has been done on this inscription that brings more certainty to the reading. Thank you in advance. Regards, Palaniappan _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology <https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology> _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology <https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology> ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Stefan Baums, Ph.D. Institut für Indologie und Tibetologie Ludwig‐Maximilians‐Universität München _______________________________________________ INDOLOGY mailing list [email protected] https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology
